The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is one of the world’s leading universities in computer science education. Starting from 2014’s winter term, Georgia Tech is providing a Master’s program in Computer Science. Individual courses are offered exclusively as “massive open online courses” (MOOCs).
1 The tuition fees will cover only a fraction of the traditional Master’s program in order to enhance accessibility. To realize this project, Georgia Tech is cooperating with AT&T and the private educational organization Udacity.
2 AT&T supports the program with 2 million USD. The telecommunication company uses the program for educating its own members of staff as well as for recruiting highly skilled graduates. With MOOCs for up to 300,000 participants, Udacity has gained global media attraction. Top German universities, e.g., Freiburg, Munich, and Berlin, have already started to accept some Udacity-MOOCs in their regular curricula.
3 As a consequence, MOOCs are increasingly challenging traditional teaching methods and institutions (Vardi
2012). …
WI – WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK – ist das Kommunikations-, Präsentations- und Diskussionsforum für alle Wirtschaftsinformatiker im deutschsprachigen Raum. Über 30 Herausgeber garantieren das hohe redaktionelle Niveau und den praktischen Nutzen für den Leser.
BISE (Business & Information Systems Engineering) is an international scholarly and double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes scientific research on the effective and efficient design and utilization of information systems by individuals, groups, enterprises, and society for the improvement of social welfare.
Texte auf dem Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, für Praktiker verständlich aufbereitet. Diese Idee ist die Basis von „Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management“ kurz WuM. So soll der Wissenstransfer von Universität zu Unternehmen gefördert werden.
